Setting up a Hyperledger Fabric environment

So far, we have learned about the key concepts of Hyperledger Fabric. In this section, we will set up a Hyperledger Fabric development environment. Before continuing with the installation steps, let's take a look at the prerequisites for fabric installation.

Installation prerequisites

The following are the prerequisites for installing the required development tools.

Ubuntu Linux 14.04 / 16.04 LTS (both 64-bit), or macOS 10.12	Docker Engine: Version 17.03 or higher
Docker-Compose: Version 1.8 or higher	Node: 8.9 or higher (note version 9 is not supported)
npm: v5.x	git: 2.9.x or higher
Python: 2.7.x

 

We will use Ubuntu for our development environment. We can download the prerequisites using the following commands:

curl -O https://hyperledger.github.io/composer/latest/prereqs-ubuntu.sh
chmod u+x prereqs-ubuntu.sh
./prereqs-ubuntu.sh

It may prompt for your password, since it uses sudo during its execution.

Installing Hyperledger Fabric

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